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Flow of Energy

Flow of Energy

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Biology

9th Grade

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Easy

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MS-LS2-3, MS-LS1-6, MS-LS2-2

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Nancy Stockton

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9 Slides • 23 Questions

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Flow of Energy

B.12C:

analyze the flow of matter and energy through trophic levels using various models, including food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids 

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Multiple Choice

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All energy in an ecosystem comes from the sun. This energy is passed through the ecosystem as organisms eat other organsims.

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Ominvores

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Herbivores

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Detritivores

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Flow of energy

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Multiple Choice

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Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis (producers). Examples are plants and algae.

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Ominvore

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Detritivore

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Heterotroph

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Autotroph

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Multiple Choice

During ____________, _____________ convert light energy into the chemical energy in sugar molecules. 
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chemosynthesis, consumers
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chemosynthesis, producers
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photosynthesis, producers

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Multiple Choice

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Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms (consumers).

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Heterotroph

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Autotroph

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Decomposer

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Detritivore

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Multiple Choice

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Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating plants.

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Parasite

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Herbivore

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Carnivore

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Omnivore

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Multiple Choice

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An animal that eats other animals is a....

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carnivore

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omnivore

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herbivore

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decomposer

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Multiple Choice

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An organism that eats both plants and animals are know as a

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Carnivore

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Omnivore

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Herbivore

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Decomposer

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Multiple Choice

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Heterotrophs that “clean up” the ecosystem by eating dead and decaying organisms.

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Autotrophs

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Herbivores

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Ominvores

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Detritivores

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Multiple Choice

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Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

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Producer

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Trophic

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Decomposer

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Autotroph

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Multiple Choice

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All of the following are consumers except

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Autotrophs

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Herbivores

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Heterotrophs

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Omnivores

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Multiple Choice

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The fourth trophic level where animals eat secondary consumers or below.

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Herbivore

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Autotroph

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Tertiary Consumer

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Tertiary Producer

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Multiple Choice

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The third trophic level where the animals eat herbivores.

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Abiotic Factor

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Biotic Factor

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Secondary Consumer

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Secondary Producer

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Multiple Choice

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Herbivores--The second trophic level where herbivores eat the primary producers.

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Detritivores

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Autotrophs

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Producers

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Primary Consumers

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Multiple Choice

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Autotrophs--The bottom trophic level where all organisms produce their own food, usually by photosynthesis.

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Trophic Levels

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Producers

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Ominvores

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Herbivores

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Multiple Choice

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Matter is passed up the ecological pyramid in a similar way to energy but recycled by decomposers and detritivores. This Biomass pyramid roughly follows the 10% rule as well.

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Producers

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Flow of matter

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Ecological Hysteria

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Multiple Choice

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Only 10% of the energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next. 90% is lost as heat due to cellular respiration or waste.

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Tertiary Consumer

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Biotic Factor

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Abiotic Factor

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10% Rule

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Multiple Choice

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Which organisms in the diagram have the most energy to give to other organisms?

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Cattails and Marsh Grass

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Hawks and Snakes

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Crickets and Grasshoppers

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Shrews and Frogs

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Multiple Choice

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What is a food chain?

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A chain that shows how heat passes from organism to organism.

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A way of showing how matter and energy pass from one organism to another.

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A representation of all the predator-prey relationships in a community.

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Multiple Choice

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What type of organisms are the first step in a food chain?

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Consumers

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Predators

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Producers

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Multiple Choice

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Why is the insect a consumer?
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It is eaten by a mouse.
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It can make its own food.
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It eats the plant.

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Multiple Choice

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A food web is made up of

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one food chain.

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only producers.

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many different food chains.

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Multiple Choice

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Complex trophic relationships in an ecological pyramid.

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Food Chain

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Food Web

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Abiotic Factor

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Biome

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Multiple Choice

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If additional snakes are introduced into this ecosystem, there will most likely be an immediate decrease in the _________.  
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hawk population
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rabbit population
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wildflower population
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grass population

Flow of Energy

B.12C:

analyze the flow of matter and energy through trophic levels using various models, including food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids 

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